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2013., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: 971.07 I24f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Renowned author and former Liberal Party of Canada leader Michael Ignatieff delivers a stirring meditation on contemporary politics and the lessons he learned in defeat. Candid and utterly unexpected, this book is not just for Canadians concerned about the future of the Liberal Party, but for all citizens concerned about the future of Canada and of political discourse in today's increasingly partisan world."--From publisher.
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1998., Metropolitan Books Call No: Bio B515i Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2021., Metropolitan Books : Henry Holt and Company Call No: 152.4 I24o Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes-war, famine, pandemic-we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works-from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi-esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century"
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2000., House of Anansi Press Call No: 323.0971 I24r Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: The Massey lectures
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With the world to choose from : Celebrating seven decades of the Beatty Lecture at McGill UniversityBy Hooton, Brett Koning, Robin Thurston, Meaghan Ward, Barbara Suyin, Han Ritchie-Calder, Peter Sinsheimer, Robert Hoyle, Fred Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999. Dahrendorf, Ralf, 1929-2009. Carter, Gwendolen Margaret, 1906-1991. Gorbachev, Mikhail Kouchner, Bernard Saunders, Cicely Ignatieff, Michael Yunus, Muhammad Taylor, Charles Gay, Roxane2021., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: 808.85 H789w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Beatty Lecture, established in 1952 in honour of former Canadian Pacific Railway president and McGill chancellor Sir Edward Beatty, is McGill University’s most anticipated annual event. Some of the series’ greatest lectures, delivered by Nobel Prize laureates, world leaders, and cultural icons, have been forgotten, carefully stowed away in the McGill Archives. To help us understand some of the most significant moments and discoveries of our time, this book spotlights fifteen outstanding Beatty Lectures, spanning seven decades. Readers can discover – or rediscover – these important and inspiring lectures, all in print for the first time. One of the twentieth century’s most influential visionaries, the economist Barbara Ward, opens this anthology with her future-looking 1955 lecture. Lectures from acclaimed biologist Robert Sinsheimer, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, philosopher Charles Taylor, and author and social commentator Roxane Gay carry readers through the decades that followed and up to the present, treating subjects from the tensions of Cold War politics and the implications of genetic engineering to the origins of life in the universe and the watershed #MeToo movement. Some of today’s leading academics add contextual and biographical information to each chapter, and an introduction sheds light on the history of the Beatty Lecture and the life of its notable namesake. Illustrated with a selection of photographs and ephemera, this book provides a historical and behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada’s longest-running lecture series.
